[Pkg-doc-linux-devel] Should Consultants-HOWTO be non-free

[doug jensen]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:17:52AM -0600, doug jensen wrote:
> > ...but what will we do as
> > some of these documents get older and older?  Don't they have a potential
> > of reflecting badly on the Debian project?
> 
> Hmm, at most they reflect badly at the LDP, no?

Well, yes and no :-), depending on the point of view.  I was thinking of:
Newuser>  "Yes, Debian computers are cool, but its documentation is weird."
or
Reviewer>  "Unlike Redhat, Debian still includes some outdated LDP documents."
but then,
Post-removal-user>  "The doc-linux package isn't complete, why not?"

To give a perspective of how weird my opinions are, I loved the potato
installer (at that time), and I still think dselect is friendly.

> Before removing a document from the package because we think that it
> is too outdated we certainly should ask at the LDP list if they want
> to remove it, too.

Agreed.

This is at best an after sarge issue, and shouldn't divert your
excellent efforts.  Maybe the old documents aren't that big of a
deal anyway.

Thank you for your reply.

-- 
Doug Jensen